X-ray Archives - Different Impulse

3 arcmin × 3 arcmin Chandra X-ray image of the pulsar vicinity in 0.5–10 keV range smoothed with a 25 pixel Gaussian kernel. The ‘+’ symbol shows the pulsar position. The ‘jet’ and ‘counter-jet’ are marked. The 30 arcsec × 30 arcsec image part, enclosed by the cyan dashed box and smoothed with a 3 pixel Gaussian kernel, is enlarged in the inset. The possible PWN torus and the base part of the ‘jet’ are marked.

June 12, 2019 Science

X-ray study sheds more light into the nature of a gamma-ray pulsar

Using archival data from ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have investigated one of gamma-ray radio-quiet pulsars

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February 15, 2019 Science

Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?

Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of

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This artist's impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. The elongated spot depicts an X-ray-bright region in the disk, which allows the spin of the black hole to be estimated.

January 10, 2019 Science

X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center

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September 28, 2018 Science

Making head or tail of a galactic landscape

Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture a dramatic image of an enormous tail of hot

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September 8, 2018 Science

We’ve Just Seen What Happens When a Galaxy Punches a Giant Hole Through Another

There are many strange galaxies out there in space, but about 300 million light-years away is one that’s really something.

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